The Discerner Art Publication May 2017 Issue 14

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Discerning The World of Arts

Melanie Wright’s painting “Dressage Study”. See page 3 for more works by Melanie

May 2017

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Editor’s Letter Dear Readers, I hope that you are all well.

This month, I am delighted to inform you that The Discerner is hosting an art event at Purdey & Sons on Wednesday 7th June between 6:30pm and 8:30pm.

I am extremely honoured to have been invited to organise an event in such a fantastic store, and I am pleased to offer such a wonderful opportunity to some of the artists who are showing their works in our May issue.

As our events always combine fine arts and music, I am thrilled to announce that our guests will be entertained by some top notch musicians, who will performing Bach, Chopin, some jazz standards but also some titles by Pink Floyd. It is all extremely eclectic and exciting!

Our event at Purdey & Sons is on invitation only, so I would strongly recommend you to email me at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or call me on 020 7491 9925 to RSVP before the 1st of June.

I look forward to meeting you, Kindest regards Celine

Celine Gaurier-Joubert

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E: celine@thediscerner.co.uk W: www.thediscerner.com T: 020 7491 9925

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For private viewings of art work in Mayfair, please contact Celine directly at celine@thediscerner.co.uk

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Melanie Wright Melanie lives in the Cotswolds, where her deep affinity with horses and the landscape inform and inspire her paintings. She is well known for her equestrian sporting images in the fields of Racing, Dressage and Polo. Melanie trained as a portrait painter at Heatherleys School of Fine Art in London and carries both her formal portrait painting skills and her endless fascination with depicting movement, spirit and the atmosphere of place, into her artwork.

Working in oils, watercolour and drawn media, Melanie’s paintings have been exhibited in London and Oxfordshire and feature in private collections in the USA, Europe and Scandinavia.

“At the start, Cheltenham” - £1400 Oil on linen 18.50 x 39cm “Dressage Study” - £3200 Oil on linen 59 x 48cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“The Final Furlong” - £2400 Oil on board 38 x 48cm

T: 01608 643546

“After the Race, Cheltenham” - £2200 Oil on board 39 x 29cm

E: melaniewrightstudio@googlemail.com

W: melaniewrightartist.co.uk

For all enquiries, please contact Melanie or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Christopher Engel Christopher Engel is an American artist. His work has been exhibited in the USA and abroad, and is part of numerous private collections.

Engel’s work is characterized by powerful brush strokes and vibrant colors, weaving many layers of meaning into a single image. Both abstract and figurative, a positive energy vibrates throughout the work.

Engel states: “My work attempts to capture archetypal images, drawing the viewer into a communication with the ancient, metaphysical and transcendent. These images have appeared throughout history – in the first marks of our ancestors, on cave walls, on trees, in the sand – messages that though we are only passing through this life momentarily, we each are a part of something that never ends.”

“Talisman 4” - POA Acrylic, pastel, graphite, and collage on paper 26” x 40”

“Summer Carnival” - POA Acrylic, pastel, graphite, and collage on paper 30” x 40”

E: artofengel@gmail.com

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“Talisman 14” - POA Acrylic, pastel, graphite, and collage on paper 26” x 40”

“Last Call” - POA Acrylic, pastel, graphite, and collage on paper 30” x 40”

W: christopherengelart.com

W: kramorisgallery.com/christopher-engel/

For all enquiries, please contact Chris or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Dameon Priestly Dameon’s works are often considered as well-crafted, realistic examinations of the modern condition within a historical context. The work subtly engages viewers to contemplate the continuity between past and present creating threads that tie his works together, retelling captivating stories that trace a path through time. Dameon captures his subject’s lives with full emotional tension, portrayed against everyday back-drops where the drama unfolds. He has sold nationally and internationally. Dameon lives and works in Rochester, UK.

“First Past the Post” - £2450 Acrylic, oil pencil and ink on French linen canvas 70 x 100cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Angel of the House” - £2450 Acrylic, oil pencil and ink on French linen canvas 100 x 70cm

T: 07989711965

“Derby Day 1915” - £2450 Acrylic, oil pencil and ink on French linen canvas 70 x 100cm

“The Real Peaky Blinder” - £2450 Acrylic, oil pencil and ink on French linen canvas 100 x 70cm

E: dameon@dameon.co.uk

W: dameon.co.uk

For all enquiries, please contact Dameon or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Vincent Rymer I am currently based in Bristol, where I have a studio at Centrespace Studios & Gallery. I am primarily a “conceptual abstractionist”, in that my work is underpinned/inspired by philosophical insights about the physical world and how I experience it. Increasingly, I am using colour to create musical compositions as I have, to some extent, synaesthesia and use colour as sounds. I constantly experiment with techniques, processes and compositional ideas. My ultimate aim is to create something that is harmonious, resonant and allows for personal interpretation. Each painting becoming a journey, an evocation, a metaphor. I have exhibited in many parts of the country including London and predominantly in the South West of England and my work is in private collections within the UK and abroad.

“Journey” - £1450 Oil, mixed media on canvas 40 x 40cm

“Time Zones” - £6000 Oil, mixed media on canvas 178 x 50cm

T:07917467226

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“Untitled” - £2000 Oil, mixed media on canvas 50 x 50cm

E:artist@vincentrymer.co.uk

“Lattice Work Garden” - £2500 Oil, mixed media on canvas 60 x 60cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Untitled” - £6500 Oil, mixed media on canvas 122 x 122cm

W: vincentrymer.co.uk

For all enquiries, please contact Vincent or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Deepa Khanna Sobti Deepa Khanna Sobti is an international award winning artist and poet from Singapore. She creates abstract expressionist paintings in oil using only a palette knife. She has exhibited her work around the world at art galleries, Art Fairs, Biennales and Museums. Her work is unique since she writes a poem for every painting that she makes.

Her work is the embodiment of her philosophy of life where she questions every belief that makes us see the world in separation. She has won several global juried awards and was selected for the London Art Biennale 2017 and the Chianciano Biennale Italy in 2015. She recently had a solo show at Galleries Pall Mall London as the winner of the Royal Arts Prize 2016. The International Confederation Of Art Critics has published a book on her work - ‘Deepa Khanna Sobti - The Pure Realm Of Imagination’ which is available on Amazon UK. Deepa donates 75% profits from the sale of her works to charity.

“There Is No One Else” - 2015 - £1800 Oil on linen 90 x 50cm

“Before The Questions” - 2017 - £3300 Oil on linen 100 x 80cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“It’s Just Happening” - 2017 - £2800 Oil on linen 90 x 70cm

“No Way Out” - 2016 - £2800 Oil on linen 90 x 70cm

E: deepakhannasobti@gmail.com

W: emptinessisfull.com

For all enquiries, please contact Deepa or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Michelle Hold ‘In a world of fast, expanding technological know how, and an expanding number of world peoples who know not who they are, it is invigorating and reassuring to meet people whose firm beliefs are put into practice, to benefit, enliven, and make better, not just themselves but the lives of others. One of them is Michelle Hold, who as artist has made her mark as abstract painter, and carved out an identity for herself. She shamelessly makes vibrant, dynamic, polychromatic, colourful, resourceful, meaningful, strong, sometimes large- sized paintings, that invigorate, excite and inspire. She panders neither to taste ( except of course her own), nor current fads, or the kind of eyecatching, voguish, detritus that currently passes as art, and which is poured out by the ton in every arts quarter of the world!’

Barry Martin, artist & curator

“The Dreamer’s Dream” - £6600 Pigments and acrylics on canvas 140 x 220cm

“Through my eyes” - £5400 Pigments and acrylics on canvas 120 x 200cm - diptych

T: +393347864141

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E: michelle@michellehold.com

W: michellehold.com

For all enquiries, please contact Michelle or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Asis Camacho Asís Camacho (Madrid, Spain, 1963), is often described as the precursor of the ‘Linearism’, a technique that unveils shocking volumes, lights and shadows of everyday objects, buildings and people, giving the observer very recognisable images, however perceiving them like never before. Straight, cold lines in acrylic ink or even carved in wood creating images and illusions warm in some cases, disturbing in others. He has previously exhibited in Spain (Sotheby´s, Ansorena, David Bradia art gallery) and US (Red Dot Miami).

“London Houses of Parliament” - 2012 - £6000 Mixed media 100 x 150 x 5cm

“St Patrick, NY. Day and Night” - Diptych - £4500 Mixed media 140 x 100 x 6cm

“Telephone” - 2015 - £4500 Mixed media 90 x 110 x 5cm

“Camera” - 2015 - £4500 Mixed media 90 x 110 x 5cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

T: (+34)607288838

E: asiscamacho@yahoo.es

W: linealismo.com

For all enquiries, please contact Asis or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Jill Campbell Jill is based in the North East of England and graduated with a first class degree in fine art in 2014. She bases her work on an ancient mining landscape in County Durham near her home. She uses elements of what she sees and combines these with her imagination to create her bewitching paintings. She is fascinated by this landscape’s strange other-worldly, abstract shapes. Its pools, pathways, mounds, dips and curves are her motifs. She draws and then applies layers of paint, using loose gestural marks until she finds balance and a painterly world emerges which celebrates this landscape.

“Spring 6” - £350 Acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm

“Autumn 7” - £350 Acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Winter 2” - £350 Acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm

T: @jillcampbellart

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“Winter 9” - £350 Acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm

E: jillcampbellart@gmail.com

W: jillcampbell.info

For all enquiries, please contact Jill or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Alexander Mihaylovich “Since the late 1980s, Los Angeles artist Alexander Mihaylovich has been creating works that deal with the fragmentation of history and memory. His most recent pieces are three-dimensional mixed media works that allude to the ephemeral nature of our own time. The juxtaposition of modern industrial fragments with painted Arcadian landscapes and classical forms points to the disjointedness of our own past as well as the complexity of understanding history and time.

The layering of found materials, such as plastic or metal, obscures our ability to view the painted image and acts as a metaphor for the destruction of cultural heritage and the environment.”

“Mirror” - 2014 - POA Oil on paper, 19th century mirror & frame 94 x 80cm

“Icon” - 2006 - POA Oil on paper, 17th century vellum fragment, mixed media 28 x 18cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Silver of Antiquity” - 2011 - POA Oil on panel, mixed media 40 x 40cm

E: alexander@mihaylovich.com

“Equilibrium” - 2006 - POA Oil on copper - 33 x 33cm

W: mihaylovich.com

For all enquiries, please contact Alexander or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Phil Davison Phil Davison works predominantly in cross-stitch, fusing this traditional hand stitching technique with imagery from his visual universe, a mix of street art and pop-culture.

Creating unique hand stitched pieces alongside limited edition prints of his work, Davison has exhibited internationally and amassed a loyal following of collectors. He is particularly inspired by image reproduction techniques striving to replicate these in cross-stitch. To accurately render and mimic the original technique that inspired its conception demands a high level of precision, some pieces taking over a year of hand stitching to complete. It is exactly this dedication to precision which drives Davison’s evolution of this craft into the realm of fine art.

“Blurred Skull” - 2014 - Ed 1/1 - £13000 Hand embroidered 14 count canvas Approximately 80.000 hand stitches 77 x 58cm

“CYMK Skull” - 2014 - Ed 3/13 - £1800 Hand embroidered 11 count canvas Approximately 40.000 hand stitches 77 x 55cm

“Always on My Mind” - 2015 - Ed 1/1 - £13000 Hand embroidered 14 count canvas Approximately 1600 hours of hand stitching 84 x 58cm

“Floral Skull Rug” - 2014 - Ed 1/1 - £7750 3 count latch hook canvas hand hooked with 22.000 tufts of 100 % wool 120 x 90cm

T: 07801921252

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E: phildavisonart@gmail.com

W: phildavisonart.com

For all enquiries, please contact Phil or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Meng Zhou Meng Zhou is of a generation that has formed its personalities and beliefs during a period of shifting social and economic circumstances, and through a boom in the availability of information and technology.

Deeply engaged in the process of artistic creation, the contested notion of metamorphosis and the becoming of oneself within a social environment, Zhou presents his sensibility towards introspective concerns, which he has described as “being incubated and oppressed at the same time.

“SI7” - 2016 - £1200 Liquid on paper 61 x 46cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

E: meng.zhou@network.rca.ac.uk

W: meng-zhou.com

For all enquiries, please contact Meng or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Claire Newman-Williams Claire Newman-Williams was born and raised in the UK and moved to America in 1988. She worked primarily as a portrait photographer with her work appearing in national and international publications.

Returning to the UK in 2005, she began working with alternative processes and old cameras, blending photographs with old text to produce intensely personal multi-media pieces which address the recurrent themes of the smothering of identity and our fear of being seen - truly seen - by those around us.

“Pheasant Girl” - £395 2 original images which are layered together with found text, printed on textured Japanese paper and mounted on old book covers - 42 x 33 x 3cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

E: claire@clairenewmanwilliams.com

“Bunnykins” - £395 One original wet plate collodion photo, matched with a found botanical illustration. The images are layered together with found text, printed on textured Japanese paper and mounted on old book covers - 42 x 33 x 3cm

W: clairenewmanwilliams.com

For all enquiries, please contact Claire or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925

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Christophe Demaitre In question of the artistic direction assumed by Christophe Demaitre, one faces a dilemma. The paradox of photographic imagery derived from a near nomadic lifestyle and whose content appears near centrically oriented to the urban experience and consequent alienation of humanity, and that of a process orientation wherein the artist shatters formalistic boundaries and discards pre-deliberation amidst the chaos of creation. His attention to material and adaptation imbue the oeuvre with a Neo-Dadaist spirit & serve to engage the viewer as he confronts facile dichotomies and roles attributed to documentary and lyrical, poetical photography.

“Cross Over” - £1900 Photo emulsion on canvas 90 x 75cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Gobi Dessert” - £4500 Photo emulsion on canvas retouched 170 x 130cm

“En Attendant” - £2500 Photo emulsion on aluminium 120 x 80cm “Underground” - £2500 Photo emulsion on canvas retouched 120 x 80cm

E: studio-demaitre@mail.com

W: cdemaitre.wordpress.com

For all enquiries, please contact Christophe or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Michael Batey I have lived in Scotland for thirty two years and was born in Cumbria near the Lake District so you can imagine where a lot of the inspiration has come from.

I paint mainly in oil in an ethereal manner painting from light to dark, none of my work is of somewhere particular it’s all in my head; I want the viewer to be transported to some place resembling or would like to find. Because I work outdoors every day I am seeing and feeling weather changes and moods especially if its stormy I seem to have the ability to remember the light.

“Daybreak” - £2000 Oil on panel 68 x 55cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“City Reflections” - £3800 Oil on panel 122 x 91cm

T: 01387 371 339

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“Revenant” - £3800 Oil on panel 122 x 92cm

“The Clearing” - £2500 Oil on panel 90 x 73cm

E: michaelbatey09@aol.com

W: michaelbatey.com

For all enquiries, please contact Michael or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Andy Davey I paint as a form of free expression. I use a range of media; acrylics for their suitability to quick, dynamic “action” painting, oils for their rich depth of colour and beautiful on-canvas mixing effects and watercolours for their luminosity. My abstract paintings mostly come out of half-sleep or meditation, though sometimes they are inspired by natural landscape. I look for a compositional balance between visual “comfort” and chaos. There is for me a point of beauty between the two, though where that balance point lies and whether I ever reach that point will be subjective for each viewer.

“Triangle” - £900 Acrylic on prepared canvas 100 x 65cm

“Blue-Yellow-Brown” - £690 Acrylic on prepared canvas 80 x 60cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Abstract 1108 Green” - £1590 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 90cm

T: 07831535982

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“Blue Thicket Meditation” - £490 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 46cm

E: daveycartoons@gmail.com

W: andydaveypaintings.com

For all enquiries, please contact Andy or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Sarah Jane Brown Sarah Jane lives on the coast of Pembrokeshire where her environment, and early maritime career, have instilled a deep affinity with the sea.

She studied painting at the West Wales School of the Arts, gaining a 1st class honours degree and her artistic career has since gained steady momentum and recognition. She has exhibited widely in the UK including several solo shows in Cardiff and prestigious exhibitions in London, such as the ‘Cork Street Open’ in Mayfair and with the ‘Royal Society of Marine Artists’ at the Mall Galleries. Her work is now collected internationally.

“Out on a Limb” - £1000 Oil on canvas 50 x 50cm

“The Firefly wakens” - £1600 Oil on canvas 60 x 60cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Rooted Flight” - 2015 - £4500 Oil on canvas 100 x 127cm

T: 07874 219942

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“Ebbing forces” - £1500 Oil on canvas 50 x 60cm

E: artist@sjbart.com

W: sjbart.com

For all enquiries, please contact Sarah Jane or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Lou Hamilton Fine Art Lou Hamilton is currently exhibiting her solo show FREEZE FRAME in Soho London; frozen moments of light, mood, abstracted forms of urban, land & seascapes. For details on her exhibition please contact her or Celine. Lou went to Byam Shaw School of Art & did her MA at Chelsea College of Art, graduating from both with distinction.

She participates in The Other Art Fair London and regularly sells to collectors worldwide through Saatchi Art online. Lou’s work has been commissioned for site-specific projects, won prizes and been exhibited in both group and one-woman shows.

“French Lavender” - £2000 Oil, plaster, acrylic 100 x 100cm

E: lou@createlab.co.uk

W: louhamiltonart.com

For all enquiries, please contact Lou or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Jessica Oliver Jessica Oliver is an artist originally from Suffolk whose current work is inspired by travelling project ‘Atlas’ a twenty-month research trip around New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and finally back to the Mediterranean after a two year summer. “When painting from landscape my intent is to represent the light, impact, immersion and energy experienced in nature. The viewer’s exploration of atmosphere and the visual and visceral surface of the paintings is my main focus, using abstraction to re-invent an experience of natural space and landscape. Waves particularly and the study of the raw energy of oceans in this latest body of work, I hope, conveys a little of my passion for the movement and powerful force of water.”

“Waterfall on a Whim” - £2000 Oil on linen 66 x 130cm Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Odyssey: Diptych” - £1800 (£900 each) Oil on panel 46 x 60cm (x 2 panels)

“Dive In” - £500 Oil on linen 30 x 40cm

T: 07708866224

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“North Wind” - £500 Oil on linen 30 x 40cm

E: jess_oliver@hotmail.co.uk

W: jessoliver.co.uk

For all enquiries, please contact Jessica or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Michael Kidd Michael was born in London in 1937. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art , then at the Royal College of Art where he met film director Ridley Scott and artist David Hockney also Peter Blake. On leaving the the Royal college he went into advertising as a art director working in some of London’s top agencies.He then spent two years in New York as an art director.On his return he started directing T.V commercials..

In 1981 he started `painting and had his first one man show at Rona gallery in Mayfair, he also shows at Brian Sinfield gallery and Red Rag gallery. He gave up directing and now paints full time.

“Times Square” - £2750 Acrylic on board 16” x 20”

“Lady with one shoe” - £3500 Acrylic on board 22” x 24”

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Stroll round the Gherkin” - £5500 Acrylic on board 24” x 32”

T: 07768420020

“Winter Garden” - £5500 Acrylic on board 24” x 32”

E: michaelkidd@btinternet.com

W: michaelkidd.net

For all enquiries, please contact Michael or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Thomas Strumpel I was born in a place along the Rhine River and then some 20 years later, I studied art in Cologne, a hub for art and artists in Germany at that time.

I began with drawings but now my focus is on painting. I work with very diluted watercolours, which I apply multiple layers, until depth is reached in the picture. It creates a subtle colour play. The texture of the canvas is evident and becomes part of the painting.

I now live in Zurich, Switzerland and in 2015 Elten & Elten Gallery presented my work for which I enjoyed the exposure.

“Playground” - 2009 - £7500 Gouache on rough linen 120 x 160cm

“Three Sisters” - 2011 - £8000 Gouache on rough linen 160 x 180cm

“A Spanish Afternoon” - 2012 - £5800 Gouache on rough linen 110 x 160cm

T: +41 786832655

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E: struempel@bluewin.ch

“The Chemical Oven” - 2009 - £8000 Gouache on rough linen 120 x 180cm

W: thomas-struempel.net

For all enquiries, please contact Thomas or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 0207 491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Caia Matheson Caia Matheson is an Award Winning Contemporary British Painter based in the United Kingdom. Caia Matheson has exhibited alongside Billy Childish Jamie Reid Yohji Yamamoto Sir Paul McCartney Chris Riddell David Lloyd Guy Venables. Caia Matheson is inspired by wabi sabi or the beauty of imperfection.

Caia Matheson also produces prints that are individually printed to order and signed by the artist. They are printed on a vellum surface (slightly textured) 100% cotton rag 310gsm archival acid free mould made fine art paper and are Fine Art Trade Guild Approved.

“In The Light” - £5000 - 100H x 100W x 3D cm Oil and dyes on hand stretched canvas

“The Sensual World” - £3800 - 74H x 65W x 3D cm Oil and dyes on hand stretched canvas

“Barcelona” - £5000 - 100H x 100W x 3D cm Oil and dyes on hand stretched canvas

“Transcendental” - £3200 - 64H x 56W x 3D cm Oil and dyes on hand stretched canvas

T: 07961405351

E: studio@caiamatheson.com

W: caiamatheson.com

For all enquiries, please contact Caia or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 0207 491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Amy Olds American by birth, Amy Olds has been living and working in Britain since 1988. She gained her Masters in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1997.

She has exhibited her work, both as a solo artist and in group shows, widely throughout the UK, as well as undertaking commissions here and abroad. Three of her paintings have recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the charity, Paintings in Hospitals.

“Phoenix” - £1200 Oil and acrylic on canvas 67 diameter

“Semaphore” - £950 Oil and acrylic on canvas 100 diameter

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Cusp” (detail) - £1500 Oil and acrylic on canvas 75 x 150cm

T: 07713 561628

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“Oranges and Lemons” (detail) - £1500 Oil and acrylic on canvas 80 x 160cm

E: amyolds@gmail.com

W: amyolds.com

For all enquiries, please contact Amy or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Agusti Viladesau Agustí Viladesau was born in Barcelona, Spain. He has exhibited in Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, and has won several prizes. He studied Art at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Barcelona.

“Purpose, aim, intention and concept are only a small fragment of our knowledge, and the painting should be more on the experience than a declaration of intention. Therefore one painting may begin from an idea and then it may become something else, because the painting itself dictates what it wants to be. The painter is just an assistant of the medium that reveals the riddle hidden in his own brain”.

“Rally” - £1800 Oil on canvas 92 x 73cm

“Traffic jam on the way home” - £1800 Oil on canvas 92 x 73cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Cycling along the beach” - £1800 Oil on canvas 92 x 73cm

“Next Summer” - £1800 Oil on canvas 92 x 73cm

E: aviladesau@gmail.com

W: viladesau.es

For all enquiries, please contact Agusti or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Simon Kirk Artist Since beginning his career in 2007, works by Simon Kirk have proved a great investment and are increasingly sought after by art collectors, notably in America, Dubai and Continental Europe. He exhibited and sold at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2010, 2013 and 2015. He is a resident artist with the Turner | Barnes | Gallery and his work is regularly exhibited as part of their collections for the New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and London Affordable Art Fairs. He has had solo exhibitions in France, Denmark and the USA.

Simon Kirk exhibited in Grand Union Station, California in February 2017, as part of Art Below Los Angeles This May, Simon Kirk will be exhibiting with the Turner | Barnes | Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong alongside Joe Webb, The Connor Brothers and Maxim (The Prodigy)

“Replay” - £495 Acrylic, pencil and image transfer 50 x 50cm

Simon Kirk is currently exhibiting in the Tess Ainley Gallery, Holt Norfolk

E: simon@simonkirkartist.gallery

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W: simonkirkartist.gallery

For all enquiries, please contact Simon or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Jana Nicole JanaNicole has exhibited extensively in the United States and the UK. She has shown in some of the most prestigious locations including most recently with Saatchi Art presents The Other Art Fair in London.

The subtle detail contained within each piece is perfectly illustrated by JanaNicole’s FLAGGING Series – a collection of social, societal and cultural changes; reminding us of historical changes and providing a fresh view of the iconic Flag.

“Spent” - 89 x 41 x 8cm - £600 Acrylic paint, encaustic wax, spent shell casings and enclosed in a perspex box that is etched with graffiti and distressed

“The Fallen” - 107 x 68 x 4cm - £1850 Created on vintage linen, with acrylic paint and set in resin, divided by perspex

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Land of the Three” - 51 x 67 x 8cm - £1225 Acrylic paint, Native American arrows.

Framed with perspex

E: jananicole.studio@gmail.com

“United” - 67 x 94 x 5cm - £2995 Acrylic paint on canvas, in a perspex box with WW2 bullets

W: jananicole.com

For all enquiries, please contact Jana or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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Gayle Storey Gayle Storey’s work is founded on the works of Ernst Haeckel. The work creates a parallel between the morphic resonance of a bird’s spirit and the fragility of life. Ornate embellishments are carefully placed upon the canvas, gilding her work to a level of richness. Gayle studied at UCA, MA in Fine Art, receiving Distinction . She is currently an Artist in Residence on the TestBeds program at the University of Bedfordshire, sponsored by the National Lottery and Arts Council England.

“Untitled After Ernst Haeckel” - £1600 Mixed media and Miyuki beads on canvas 77 x 77cm

“Caged Humming Birds After Ernst Haeckel” - £4250 Mixed media and Miyuki beads on canvas 106 x 106cm

Available to view at the Discerner’s Residence in Mayfair

“Lyrical Discourse After Ernst Haeckel” - £4250 Mixed media and Miyuki beads on canvas 100 x 100cm

T: 07940544124

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“Moto Perpetuo After Ernst Haeckel” - £4250 Mixed media and Miyuki beads on canvas 121 x 121cm

E: gaylestorey@btinternet.com

W: gaylestorey.com

For all enquiries, please contact Gayle or Celine at celine@thediscerner.co.uk or 020 7491 9925 www.thediscer ne r . c om

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